• Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, authored by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Jr., is an anthropological and sociological...
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    The Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District is a historic African-American district in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the Douglas community area on the...
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  • superheroes, such as Booster Gold and Black Lightning. Like many other fictional cities in DC Comics, the location of Metropolis has varied over the years but...
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    has bolstered the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District. Gentrification in various parts of the South Side has displaced many black citizens. The South...
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  • Chicago's Underground Economy in the Twentieth Century," in Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago, Robert Weems and Jason...
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    "Black Metropolis". From 1924 to 1929, the "Black Metropolis" was at the peak of its golden years. Many of the community's entrepreneurs were Black during...
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  • Inventory/Nomination: BLACK METROPOLIS THEMATIC NOMINATION (PDF), National Park Service, November 7, 1985, retrieved April 22, 2010 "Black Metropolis District"....
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    Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang...
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  • Crime: Black Chicago's Underground Economy in the Twentieth Century". In Weems, Robert; Chambers, Jason (eds.). Building the Black Metropolis: African...
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    Drake, and Horace Cayton, Black Metropolis: A Study in Negro Life in a Northern City (1945) Harold F. Gosnell, "The Chicago 'Black belt' as a political battleground...
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    Chicago-based Black Metropolis Research Consortium from 2011 to 2013 and the director of collections and services at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture...
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    Pat Dowell. In the early 20th century, Bronzeville was known as the "Black Metropolis", one of the nation's most significant concentrations of African-American...
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  • during World War II A neighborhood and district in Chicago, Illinois Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District, a historic district within the Bronzeville neighborhood...
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    remembered as the co-author of a seminal 1945 study of South Side, Chicago, Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. Horace R. Cayton Jr. was...
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  • "Jim Crow Organized Crime: Black Chicago’s Underground Economy in the Twentieth Century", in Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship...
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    Avenue YMCA is a Chicago Landmark located within the Chicago Landmark Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District in the Douglas community area of Chicago...
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    that they saw its purpose as inspiring black people to imagine new possibilities and futures. "Black Metropolis: 30 Years of Afrofuturism, Comics, Music...
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    family lived in the Ida B. Wells Homes public housing project in the Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District of Chicago's Douglas neighborhood, also on the...
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  • Chicago, in 1945 Drake co-authored with Horace R. Cayton, Jr. the work Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, a landmark study of race...
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    Weems Jr., Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985 (1996) BOYD, ROBERT L. (1998). "Black Undertakers...
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    Metropolis is a city and the county seat in Massac County, Illinois, United States. It is located by the Ohio River. As of the 2020 census, it had a population...
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    Metropolis Studios is a music production and entertainment industry company established in 1989 by Gary Langan, Carey Taylor, Karin Clayton and Alexander...
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    "Jim Crow Organized Crime: Black Chicago's Underground Economy in the Twentieth Century", in Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship...
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    The Eighth Regiment Armory, located in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District of Chicago, Illinois, was the first armory in the United States built...
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  • "Jim Crow Organized Crime: Black Chicago's Underground Economy in the Twentieth Century," in Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship...
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    com. 28 September 2018. Drake, St. Clair; Cayton, Horace R. (1970). Black Metropolis. University of Chicago Press. p. 237. ISBN 978-0-226-16234-8. Railway...
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  • "Numbers games, race, gender, power: primitive accumulation in the Black Metropolis". Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies. 21 –...
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    The conditions of this neighborhood are described in a section of Black Metropolis by St. Clair Drake and Horace Roscoe Cayton. The play Raisin in the...
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    percentage of its children in poverty"; in Robert D. Bullard, The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-first Century: Race, Power, and Politics, Rowman & Littlefield...
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    ISBN 0-870-49493-7. Smith II, Preston H. (2012). Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...
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